22 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
Fact Or Fiction?
US and Russia Back Bid to Find End to Syrian War
By Alex Spillius, Damien McElroy
The United States and Russia have backed a final bid to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war, as Moscow said it was prepared to accept President Bashar al-Assad’s departure.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33418.htm
22 December 2012 — RT
Evgeny Kaspersky, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, Europe’s and Russia’s largest producer of anti-virus computer software, in the company’s office. (RIA Novosti/Sergey Guneev)
Two US whistleblowers, Syria’s president, a Mexican drug lord – and Evgeny Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab., one of the biggest international malware-fighting companies – make it into the list of Wired magazine’s Most Dangerous People.
Why dangerous though? What brings together Paula Broadwell whose book cost the CIA’s director David Petraeus his post in the government and Iran’s mysterious general Qassem Suleimani thought to be behind Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons aspirations?
19 December, 2012 — Global Research
Because of the power vested in the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium, with command over a space encompassing 27 nations with more than 500 million citizens and the largest nominal world gross domestic product (GDP) of 18 trillion US dollars, it’s perhaps no surprise in this era of moral promiscuity that powerful private lobby groups such as the tobacco industry, the drug lobby, the agribusiness lobby and countless others spend enormous sums of money and other favors—legal and sometimes illegal—to influence policy decisions of the EU Commission.
21 December 2012 — News Unspun
As Hugo Chávez receives further cancer treatment in Cuba, this time seemingly with much higher stakes than before, the UK media has again shown where its interests lie when it comes to reporting on left-wing Latin American governments. The attack has come in many forms, from portraying once again the country as militaristic, to demonising Nicolas Maduro, the vice-president of Venezuela, who will stand for election in the event that Hugo Chávez cannot continue as president.
22 December 2012 — Pambazuka News
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20 December, <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>2012 — Global Research
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21 December, 2012 — The Real News Network
Vijay Prashad: Most European countries including UK support statement denouncing new settlements (inc. transcript) Continue reading
21 December 2012 — VTJP
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Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against Settlements
IMEMC – Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United Nations General Assembly to prevent Israel from continuing its illegal settlement activities. …
21 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending
By David Alexander Reuters
The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm
22 December 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 748
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working-class achievements as well as women‘s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for the Brotherhood to seize the whole political power in the country. The powers proposed for the president in the constitution, not subject to any supervision, are leading Egypt toward dictatorship. Continue reading
21 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
We cannot yet have complete confidence in a successful outcome of the fourth operation, which Hugo Chavez has undergone. Cuban oncologists and surgeons are doing their best to suppress the disease, and the metastases which appear despite the grueling sessions of chemotherapy. Continue reading
22 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
22.12.2012 | 00:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH
…The movie called Aleut Story has hit the screens recently. This is the story devoted to the horrible events of 1942, when the population of the Aleutian Islands and the island of Pribilof was replaced and interned… The story of Japanese internment is more or less known in the United States… After the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor in Unalaska in 1942, the Alaska’s Aleuts followed the fate of Japanese Americans. Continue reading
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